Fantasy Football 247 Site Team Gameweek 19
Welcome to the Fantasy Football 247 Site Team Gameweek 19 article. After two poor weeks in a row we finally had some luck and posted a decent score of 76 to get us back on track and that leaves us at 64,823 overall. Well, we say luck, there’s nothing better than a successful FPL transfer decision and one that brings you 30 points is to be rejoiced! Last week we culled Kane and brought in Zlatan and captained him. Suffice to say the big man didn’t disappoint. And we won’t lie, we had a wry smile when Kane missed his penalty. Game-weeks hang on such fine margins at times. So Zlatan was obviously our bedrock but we saw decent returns elsewhere too, notably from Pedro who we had hung onto more in hope than anticipation as he had missed the previous week and posted poor scores of 1, 3 and 2 prior to that. Our patience was rewarded with a big 13 this week. Unfortunately the silly sausage then went and got himself suspended for this week which leaves us in a bit of a pickle. And said pickle only got bigger when Walker went and got himself suspended as well having posted a rather disappointing 1 pointer for us. His team-mate Erik did rather better with two assists and 10 points though. Other than Cech getting a straight 6 though the rest were fairly mundane other than our 3rd pickle… Our Itchy pick was described by one commentator this week as “simply a poor choice at the moment”, and we couldn’t agree more! Especially when he didn’t even start this week. He redeemed himself with a late goal though to give us a 5 for him and it could have been more as he was waiting to tap in the Sterling cross which Davies turned in for an own goal. Goal or not he’s still an issue which needs dealing with, to add to the others #gulp…
Transfer – Sold Pedro and Iheanacho and bought Phillips and Defoe
We will admit this one had us a bit stumped. Every which way we turned it was far from ideal. And the ideas and suggestions were thin on the ground, which in some ways was a relief, after the fighting seen recently as a result of there being so many in the past few weeks. In the end we decided to go with the tried and tested in terms of fairly consistent FPL point scorers in the shape of Phillips and Defoe. It’s not overly exciting or innovative but it probably keeps the wheels turning for a bit until better opportunities present themselves.
The obvious point here is that we haven’t really planned for Aguero’s return. In truth we are happy enough to run with Costa and Ibra as our main forwards for the time being and we will make a call on Kun in the next few weeks if anything happens to our big two or if Kun shows signs of life again.
The other obvious point is that our team does look a bit bedraggled this week, we are aware of it so don’t come pointing it out please! It happens sometimes when you encounter a few suspensions at once, but then sometimes the most aesthetic of teams don’t always bring home the bacon so let’s see what our ugly pigs can do for us this time out…
THE NEW TEAM IN FULL FOR Gameweek 19
Our Captain is Zlatan
He’s been in imperious form and faces a Middlesbrough team who are without a win in their last 8 away games. It was him or Costa and both are good shouts this week and we would happily have gone with either but we went with Zlatan. Let’s hope the Iceman cometh again…
If anyone is interested in following the site teams progress then you can do so here and we wish you all the best of luck this week with your own teams.
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Fixture Tracker – the next 6 games
Hi guys need help! My gk is pickford & grant..should i take a hit and buy a new keeper? In my mind now robles..any sugestion?
I wouldn’t bother for a hit. Just play Grant, I assume that deal will be done.
I was hoping on that deal being done today. Might just bring Grant in anyway
Hey folks – hope the festive season has treated you all well! What do you guys think as it relates to:
– will Origi start vs. City?
– holding Walker vs. Transferring him out for an arsenal defender (-4)? If I hold, I’m going to have Pieters playing vs. Chelsea. Also have Alonso, Haz and Costa in that game.
* Alonso, Costa, Haz and Allen!
Just hold him and hope for the best !!
Afternoon,
Team for GW19 – Good to go?
Primed and ready. Solid team.
Good to go mate, I also had to play Amat cos Walker went and got himself suspended and didn’t wanna sell him.
The best of luck mate, hope Ibra smashes it.
More hits needed…….
….agree with Brooky
Lol
Hey guys. Is grant a better shout than mannone? The deal is putting me off grant.
Grant could have a lot of goals put past him but may also collect some save points. Mannone could possibly get a cleanie but Burnley aren’t too bad at home. It’s a lose-lose situation.
Hi guys, just something I’ve been brooding about for a while. I currently have two premium forward in Costa and Ibra and plan on playing 3-5-2 for the time being with Phillips being my fifth midfielder. But I wanna ask though, how essential is Aguero?? Cos this is just my third serious season in FPL and I’ve never envisioned going without Aguero, till now.
And aslo can a better case be made for a 4-3-3 formation as against my current one?
I’m placed 170k OR right now and I have so much ground to cover if I’m to match my 27k from last season.
Cheers mates!!!
This is the first season where doesn’t seem as essential as he was before. I think other strikers can keep pace but aguero will always be the most explosive. I’m going to hold off for now as I don’t want to upset the balance of the team.
Thanks Erlanger. Think I’m also gonna hold fast for awhile and see how things unfold.
I’ve been playing FPL with more interest for the last three seasons and have always stuck with Kun. This year Costa looks like the most consistent and Ibra is the greatest threat. Until that changes I’m sticking with those. Also means you can spend more in midfield.
Pulis says he may make changes as WBA have 2 game sin 3 days and some niggles in the squad……
As long as Brunt and Foster play…….